Joe Maher, the principal deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, had been appointed by Phil to that position nearly 15 years earlier. Joe is a very skilled lawyer; a University of Chicago Law School graduate, he clerked for well-known conservative Judge E. Grady Jolly in the Fifth Circuit, and he had worked for Gene Scalia when Gene was solicitor at the Department of Labor. Joe is incisive, with a deep understanding of the constitutional principles at issue in the Committee’s work. His appointment to the Committee staff was supported by five prior general counsels of
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